{"slug": "airvpn", "name": "AirVPN", "category": "networking", "category_name": "Networking and VPN", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 5, "warners": 1, "score": 2.173, "rising": 0.35, "first": "2025-12-13", "latest": "2026-10-31", "why": "Been using AirVPN for a while and I'm pretty happy with it.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Been using AirVPN for a while and I'm pretty happy with it.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "airvpn.org", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://airvpn.org", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["AirVPN"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 805089664, "item_id": 50318104, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318104", "by": "spottedmarley", "date": "2026-10-31", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Been using AirVPN for a while and I'm pretty happy with it.", "excerpt": "Been using AirVPN for a while and I'm pretty happy with it. Every once in a while there is a web site that blocks me but those sites tend to block all VPN services so AirVPN is not necessarily unique or being singled-out in those instances.", "context": "", "use_case": "VPN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What has been your favorite VPN provider?"}, {"id": 779544336, "item_id": 48721521, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721521", "by": "cassianoleal", "date": "2026-06-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been quite satisfied with AirVPN", "excerpt": "I've been quite satisfied with AirVPN [0]. [0] https://airvpn.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the far-right Swedish \u00d6rebro party"}, {"id": 742246833, "item_id": 46390427, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46390427", "by": "ssl-3", "date": "2025-12-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "pay for something like Mullvad or AirVPN (they accept crypto payments just fine)", "excerpt": "> Would a child have access to a paid VPN like Mullvad anyway, I wonder. Sure. Why not? Paid VPNs are cheap to use, and kids are smart. A kid who already has a computer to use can turn a relatively large amount of electricity into a relatively small amount of crypto, and can do so very informally. It's usually a money-losing operation, but that matters less when a person is (say) 14 and someone else pays the electric", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Governments in the West Are Turning Their Sights on VPNs"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 741248320, "item_id": 46328020, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328020", "by": "jorvi", "date": "2025-12-19", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I can't recommend them to anyone that isn't highly technical.", "excerpt": "Not only Eddie, their account control panels and site in general look like something from the 90s, and it seriously hampers their business. I can't recommend them to anyone that isn't highly technical. And even then, as a technical user, why do I manually have to select one of 10-20 servers within a city or region, why am I being asked to manually load balance? Why is there no Wireguard over port 53 or 443? It makes ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GotaTun \u2013 Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["vpn", "vpn service"], "compared": [{"slug": "mullvad", "name": "Mullvad", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317731", "title": "Ask HN: What has been your favorite VPN provider?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48717469", "title": "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the far-right Swedish \u00d6rebro party", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388185", "title": "Governments in the West Are Turning Their Sights on VPNs", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324543", "title": "GotaTun \u2013 Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257339", "title": "VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 1, "warn": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 805089664, "item_id": 50318104, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318104", "by": "spottedmarley", "date": "2026-10-31", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Been using AirVPN for a while and I'm pretty happy with it.", "excerpt": "Been using AirVPN for a while and I'm pretty happy with it. Every once in a while there is a web site that blocks me but those sites tend to block all VPN services so AirVPN is not necessarily unique or being singled-out in those instances.", "context": "", "use_case": "VPN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What has been your favorite VPN provider?"}, {"id": 779544336, "item_id": 48721521, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721521", "by": "cassianoleal", "date": "2026-06-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been quite satisfied with AirVPN", "excerpt": "I've been quite satisfied with AirVPN [0]. [0] https://airvpn.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the far-right Swedish \u00d6rebro party"}, {"id": 742246833, "item_id": 46390427, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46390427", "by": "ssl-3", "date": "2025-12-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "pay for something like Mullvad or AirVPN (they accept crypto payments just fine)", "excerpt": "> Would a child have access to a paid VPN like Mullvad anyway, I wonder. Sure. Why not? Paid VPNs are cheap to use, and kids are smart. A kid who already has a computer to use can turn a relatively large amount of electricity into a relatively small amount of crypto, and can do so very informally. It's usually a money-losing operation, but that matters less when a person is (say) 14 and someone else pays the electric", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Governments in the West Are Turning Their Sights on VPNs"}, {"id": 741248320, "item_id": 46328020, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328020", "by": "jorvi", "date": "2025-12-19", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I can't recommend them to anyone that isn't highly technical.", "excerpt": "Not only Eddie, their account control panels and site in general look like something from the 90s, and it seriously hampers their business. I can't recommend them to anyone that isn't highly technical. And even then, as a technical user, why do I manually have to select one of 10-20 servers within a city or region, why am I being asked to manually load balance? Why is there no Wireguard over port 53 or 443? It makes ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GotaTun \u2013 Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust"}, {"id": 740128224, "item_id": 46258014, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46258014", "by": "Beijinger", "date": "2025-12-13", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I currently use AirVPN", "excerpt": "I am not sure that I really understand what they did. I am also missing some major VPNs in the list. I currently use AirVPN but this has something to do with my use case and pricing. Why do you want to use a VPN? - Privacy - Anonymity (hint: don't!) - unblock geolocation - torrents - GFC The last point is the hardest. https://expatcircle.com/cms/privacy/vpn-services/", "context": "", "use_case": "VPN service", "switched_from": "", "story": "VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits"}]}